The southern watershed
From Himal Southasian, Volume 20, Number 2 (FEB 2007) Arreh! Arreh! Kya baat! Readers who have a Hindostani (Hindi-Urdu) heritage will have no difficulty following those exclamations, but they never stop and consider that these are alien terms to those from the Southasian South, whose categories of population do not fall within the Hindostani umbrella …